Wasps robbing food from ants: A frequent behavior?

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 997-1001

  LaPierre, Louis ^a   Hespenheide, Henry ^b   Dejean, Alain ^c  

^a Lower Columbia College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Charterginus; Cleptobiosis; Plant ants; Polybioides; Social wasps

Indexed keywords

ANT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; MYRMECOPHYTE; ROBBING; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANT; ARTICLE; AZTECA; BARTERIA FISTULOSA; CECROPIA; CHARTERGINUS; CLEPTOBIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYBIOIDES TABIDA; PREY; TETRAPONERA AETHIOPS; WASP;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; CLIMATE; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRENCH GUIANA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; AZTECA; BARTERIA FISTULOSA; CECROPIA; DOLICHODERINAE; EPIPONINI; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; PASSIFLORACEAE; POLISTINAE; POLYBIOIDES; PSEUDOMYRMECINAE; ROPALIDIINI; TETRAPONERA AETHIOPS; URTICACEAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 36348980441     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0270-y     Document Type: Article

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